Synodic month length 29.48 days

Length of current 155 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than next lunation 156 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 11 August 2012 Saturday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠248.7°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠248.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠283.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after apogee

1 day after point of apogee on 10 August 2012 at 10:51 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 August 2012 at 19:39 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 405 008 km

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 00:04 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 24 August 2012 at 11:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

12 days after previous South standstill on 29 July 2012 at 12:11 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.592°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.492° in the next northern standstill on 12 August 2012 at 09:47 in ♊ Gemini.